Gender-based inequalities in the effects of housing on health: A critical review.

ABSTRACT: Gender and its power relations are produced and reproduced in the housing sphere, leading to inequalities in living conditions and, therefore, in gender inequalities in health outcomes. The aim of the study is to review the published literature on gender, housing and health, to critically evaluate the incorporation of the gender perspective, and to incorporate this perspective into the conceptual framework of housing and health. Using the critical review method, we conducted a literature review in MEDLINE, Scopus, WOS and Redalyc, without restriction of publication date, including studies published up to October 2020. We analyzed the gender perspective in health research using the Gender Perspective in Health Research Questionnaire and described the results according to main housing dimens

SUBMITTER: Vasquez-Vera C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8961216 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature